Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Shimla: Himachal resident Dr D.S. Rana, chairman of department of nephrology at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, has been awarded the Padmashri for his distinguished services in the field of medicine in the country and rural areas of Himachal Pradesh. Dr Rana is among the pioneers to establish nephrology …
The city of Delhi gets a lot of rain every year, more than sufficient for its needs, but it does not use that rainwater. The city gets huge quantity of water from dams and rivers from long distances, equal to one of the highest quantity of water in the nation …
Dams have had serious impacts on the lives, livelihoods, cultures and spiritual existence of indigenous, tribal and illiterate people, moreover on the physical environmental conditions and on the biodiversity of the area concerned. The dam related developmental activities in Ravi catchment area have been threatening the biodiversity in the whole …
A team of the state pollution control board raided an industrial unit at Malpur village in the Baddi industrial area here today and ordered to stop production work there. The unit was reportedly operating without requisite
Spread over 11 states and comprising 23 sub-basins, the Ganga basin accounts for 50 per cent of the total 40 million hectares of the flood-prone land in the country. This was stated by AK Bajaj, member (project), Ganga Flood Control Commission (GFCC), while chairing the 40th meeting of the commission …
NGOs join hands against govt move Over 500 environmentalists, social activists, non-governmental organisations and individuals from all over the country have come under the banner of
The upper Manali region experienced a fresh spell of snowfall, while the lower parts of the areas were lashed by rain on today. This brought the temperature substantially down in the region. The higher reaches in the Kullu area, including Rohtang Pass, Pir Panjal ranges, Chanderkhani Pass, Hamata ski slopes, …
Shimla: Nearly five months after the state Cabinet decided to restore the 960-MW Jangi Thopan Powari hydel project to Brakel Corporation, the Dutch company may have to wait for more time to sign the implementation agreement (IA). The company, which has already fought a 15-month-long legal and administrative battle to …
If scientists at Palampur are to be believed, sugar daddies of India are not eager to have organic alternatives to sugar in the market Dharamsala, March 22 All that is safe and good for the USA need not be good for India. While the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) …
Shimla: Social activists Medha Patkar and Sunderlal Bahuguna are expected to join the Himalaya Bachao Campaign, which would be kicked of in Himachal from Bilaspur district on April 9, where they would join activist groups from all over the state in the
Solan: In preventive action against possible forest fires, the Forest Department has launched a campaign to educate masses about safety measures needed. Contact programmes to spread awareness about the Himachal Pradesh Forests (protection from fire) Rule, 1999, are being organised, with the help of panchayats and mahila and yuvak mandals. …
Solan: Peeved over the alleged indifference of the Haryana state Government and the Centre towards the bad condition of the Pinjore-Baddi stretch of National Highway 21A, the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh Industries
Muktsar: Muktsar residents committing slow suicide by drinking 7-foot-deep water Everyday, Kotkapura Road residents, Vivek Sharma and his wife Neetu, get a 10-litre can filled from the Water Works office campus, after it closes. They don
Shimla: If the controversy around the printing of a wrong map in the official diaries was not enough, the forest department has been caught on the wrong foot. A state map with redefined boundaries of wildlife sanctuaries has been published without the approval of the authorised empowered committee appointed for …
Shimla: Governor Prabha Rau today stressed the need for setting up more agriculture and horticulture-based industries and processing units in the state for improving the lot of small and marginal farmers. Rau was presiding over the state-level national Productivity Award ceremony for micro, small and medium entrepreneurs in Himachal Pradesh …
Due to failure of winter rain and continuous dry spell over the past several months, the Forest Department here has started a campaign to check forest fires in the area. Apart from mobilising a force of more than 400 forest personnel, active cooperation of villagers living in fringe areas of …
